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Surprised to see all the negativity here. If the argument is “selfish rich people consuming resources at the expense of everyone else”, there are much lower ha
by Nextgrid 3y ago
Surprised to see all the negativity here.
If the argument is “selfish rich people consuming resources at the expense of everyone else”, there are much lower hanging fruits than this.
Adtech and all its supporting infrastructure not only uses orders of magnitude more resources than a few hundred bodies in LN2 but also generates infinite annoyance and wastes everyone's time. Ditto for a lot of monopolized/oligopolized/lobbied industries (telecoms? Tax filing in the US?) that ultimately cause wealth (and thus resources) to accumulate in the hands of a select few at the expense of everyone else.
- yellow_lead 3y agoWe can be displeased by both. The reason there's negativity here is because it was mentioned. I wouldn't realistically expect to see people say "oh yeah this doesn't really bother me because adtech exists."
- snapplebobapple 3y agoby going to lower hanging fruits as the justification for why that argument is wrong, you have already lost the argument, imo. The correct response is they aren't consuming resources at the expense of everyone else, they are collecting a tiny fraction of the resources owed to them for foregoing consumption in the past in order to invest in capital that has made everybody's life dramatically better. The people that got rich through theft is pretty small just because so many people have turned good ideas into good companies over the last 100 years growing the economy by a staggering amount and drowning out the royalty and other thugs that got rich extremely unjustly.